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Reuters Our weekly roundup of the most intriguing articles about cities and urbanism we've come across in the past seven days.
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How This Smoke Cloud Became the Ultimate Symbol of Greece's Depression
You don't need any statistics to fully grasp the depth of the economic crisis. You only need to know about the smoke.
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Charts
More Losers Than Winners in America's New Economic Geography
It appears that talent clustering provides little in the way of trickle-down benefits to service and blue-collar workers.
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Why India's Obsession With 'Getting Things Done' Should Matter to Urban Planners
Skirting the rules to get a problem fixed runs deep in India's culture. Does it make it difficult to nurture law-and-order institutions?
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Maps
Class-Divided Cities: Los Angeles Edition
The second in our series mapping the growing class divides in American cities and metros.
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Maps
Class-Divided Cities: New York Edition
Examining America's dramatic socio-economic residential segregation.
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Beijing Gets Aggressive on Cutting Smog, But It May Not Matter
The municipal government can only do so much without support at the national level.
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Flooding in Jakarta: A City Swamped by Its Own Success
Clogged canals and aging infrastructure aren’t the only factors intensifying Jakarta’s perennial flood crises.
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Inbox
A Reader Asks: Are Some Cities Doomed Never to Catch Up?
We get a lot of email. This week, Richard Florida answers one reader's pressing question.
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Urban Wonk
Brooklyn's Affordability Crisis Is No Accident
Rents are skyrocketing in the borough thanks to inflexible zoning rules.
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UNICEF Wants Us to Talk About Urban Inequality
An online forum invites insight from the people who work on the ground in the world’s biggest and most dysfunctional cities.
